Spider-Man 3 for Wii - an observation (aka I must be horribly out of shape)

[RTSDaddy2]

Ok, being the Spider-Man aholic that I am, I rented Spidey3 for the Wii yesterday.

The new web slinging thing is rather cool, I gotta admit.  If you haven't played with it yet, there is a point in training where you have Wiimote in one hand, Nunchuck in the other, and can fling webs to swing on then with both hands....thus simulating the back and forth motion we've seen so many times from one building to another.

PROBLEM:  After 30 minutes of that yesterday, I was WORN OUT!  I also found out that while I always thought it might be cool to have web shooters, I'd be wrong - I really stink at swinging.  I have no idea how many cars I slammed into while trying to get down the street!   

Boy - makes that Spider-Man 2 PC game my family gave me (where you clicked the mouse to throw web) PALE in comparison.

[shmokes]

Yay!  Another mediocre/bad Wii game. 

[Samstag]

Well, it's a movie tie-in.  I'm not sure why anyone would expect it to be any good, but this post does interest me enough to consider renting it.  Maybe.

[stephenp1983]

I enjoyed spiderman 1 and especially spiderman 2 on the ps2, so I thought this would be pretty good, but I've heard its gotten bad reviews for ps2 and wii.  I dunno which one I want to rent.

[Hoagie_one]

i turned it off after about 15 minutes.  I lost interest after that.  Combat was not good.

[Samstag]

Sounds like I should give this one a pass.  I'd hate to waste the Gamefly 9-14 day turnaround on a 15-minute game.

[odysseyroc]

Sounds like I should give this one a pass.  I'd hate to waste the Gamefly 9-14 day turnaround on a 15-minute game.

9-14 days? Gamefly must have sped up their shipping process since I quit a couple of years ago.

[Samstag]

Sounds like I should give this one a pass.  I'd hate to waste the Gamefly 9-14 day turnaround on a 15-minute game.

9-14 days? Gamefly must have sped up their shipping process since I quit a couple of years ago.

Are you on the east coast?  They have a new distribution center in Pittsburgh now.  Unfortunately I'm in Texas.  So I used to get them faster than east coasters, but now I don't have that consolation.  I'm equally screwed from both sides.

[odysseyroc]

Sounds like I should give this one a pass.  I'd hate to waste the Gamefly 9-14 day turnaround on a 15-minute game.

9-14 days? Gamefly must have sped up their shipping process since I quit a couple of years ago.

Are you on the east coast?  They have a new distribution center in Pittsburgh now.  Unfortunately I'm in Texas.  So I used to get them faster than east coasters, but now I don't have that consolation.  I'm equally screwed from both sides.

I was about a half hour drive from their shipping center in California. It took on average 14 days - never to get games from them.

[Howard_Casto]

Generally speaking, the spiderman games have been pretty good.  All except spiderman 2 of course, where they thought it'd be a great idea to badly rip off gta.  (Ugh) I haven't played this one, I'm just saying...

Lots of tie in games are very good, but some snobs can't get over the fact that because it has a set release date (close to the movie or whatever) it isn't going to be the greatest game in the history of the console. 

The buffy games were quite good, spiderman 1 was great.  Lesser known games like indiana jones and the emperor's tomb were very good.  I've heard that batman begins was rather good.  I think what makes them good is less the property tied into them and more the genre.  They are all over-the-shoulder, quick paced, adventure games.  This genre pretty much doesn't exist anymore except with movie tie-ins and it's a shame because it's probably my favorite.  Basically if you liked the old 2d or 2 3/4 d beat em ups of the 90's, this is the closest thing you'll find in modern gaming.

[btp2k2]

One of the best tie in games was the Riddick/Butcher Bay game.

On that note...I happened to like Spidey 2 (On GC...got ripped off by Activision with that crappy PC kids version they pawned off on us).

I am currently playing Spidey 3 on the 360 and love it.

[shmokes]

IGN rated Spidey 3 for Wii 5.4 out of 10.  Seriously, I don't mean to be a ---tallywhacker---, but you simply cannot listen to a word RTSDaddy has to say about Wii games.  He loves virtually everything he puts in the system.

BTW, another really good movie tie in was King Kong.

[northerngames]

I thought Van Helsing for the xbox was great and actually going to play it threw again when I get a chance.

[RTSDaddy2]

I don't mean to be a jerk here either, but I've got to respond to Shmokes a little here - everybody's got opinions,  you know

Uh, I don't recall giving anybody the idea that I liked this version of Spidey. If I did, I certainly didn't mean to.   If you go back and actually READ my post,  you'll see where I talked about how difficult I found web swinging, though I did find the inital concept intriguing (hope springs eternal).  I guess I didn't say it clear enough, but for someone who thinks I never take things out of my system that Wii game has come out and never went back in.  I would agree, it's about a 5 out of 10.

As for any previous posts, if I  had it to do over again, some of them I'd rethink a little too.  I will agree with you, I do tend to wear rose colored glasses where the Wii is concerned, but every now and then I look at it with clear vision too and I will say - seriously - that some of the games I initially thought were great uses of the Wiimote dull with time (WiiPlay, for instance).   Some just don't make the translation well at all (Trauma Center & Cooking Mama are great DS games but are not so enjoyable on the Wii).

In spite of all this, the one place Shmokes and I definitely disagree - and always will - is on the overall success of the system over time.  I have NOT lost faith that there are great games on the way for it, and I will steadfastly continue playing the ones that are good until they arrive (recentering my rose colored glasses back on my face). 

[btp2k2]

While I think the Wii definitely has potential for greatness, I think there is also potential for it to become a fad a la the hoola hoop.

I hope that doesn't happen though. I hope that someone finally makes a good game for it and people remember that a game doesn't have to look photo realistic to be a great game.